Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 1007

The man who calculates the merits and faults
of the saints, closes the roll of his own good
deeds. He is a fool who crushes a flower to look
for its fragrance, or cleaves a plantain stem to find
its fruit in it. Tuka says, He who attributes impurity to the Ganges and to fire, he is a miscreant
and shall suffer for it.

Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents